The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-09-10
TIMES CHANGES.

In 1868, among the crowd which came one day
to President Lincons anteroom, seeking an au-
dience, was awhite-haired, bent, old man, whose
son had been condemned to be shot as a DESERT
er. He came to plead for the boys life. The
President promised to look into the case, and
babe him return the next day. When he came
his agitation was so great that he was unable to
speak.
Mr. Lincoln placed the pardon in his hands,
and the old man, after few choking words, left
the room.
That is Mr.. Blank, of Illinois," the President
said to a friend" HE was the great man OF his
district thirty-two years ago. 1 was the hired
man in family where he often visited. sup
pose he has forgotten me- he added, simply,
apparently unconscious of the change which
time had brought to them both.
General Grant, it is said, when in London re-
ceiving the hospitalties of the Queen, was con-
fronted by ragged tramp, who reminded him
that they had worked side by side in the same
lanyard.
A Paris correspondent of New York paper re-
Gently told the story of rough, shabby man,
who stopped the beautiful wife of an Italian
princes on her way to her carriage. "You don't
remember me, eh ?" he said. ~ used to board
with your mother in America, and you used to
go about with an empty tomato can, asking for
pennies
"Allow me to repay you your contribution to
the can,' she said, smiling, dropping a coin into
his outstretched hand as she passed on.
The ''whirligig of time bring nowhere else
such revenges as in this country. The change OF
circumstances in many lives is more sudden and
extreme than would be possible elsewhere.
A young:man of wealth and high social stand
ing recognized this fact lately in humorous
spirit, when finding fault with his shoemaker.
''I hope" he said, that when my son is making
shoes for your son, he may give him better
fit"
In society so unstable and loosely hinged as
ours is the poorest and most insignificant OF its
members have reason for encouragement and
hope. The shabby poor boy in the school is ne
elected by his richer and more fashionable COM
panions. Let him have patience. Many things
come to him who.works and waits.
The old man knows what time, even unaided
by effort, does in repairing mstakes,in changing
the position of the actors on lifes stage in dull
| ing pain, in softening hatred Heis calm, even
| in grief.
from experience.
But the young, who know nothing of times
power believe the pain, the poverty, the anger
that make life hard for them to-day, to be eter-
| nal.
Certain perishable classes Of goods are sold
| subject to the destructive effect of the atmos-
| phere. Let us weigh our troubles in the same
way, as subject to the inevitable wearing infiu-
ence Of that uncomfortable power we call
| time.
| eB- Although paper glass windows may seem
to be contradiction in terms, says an exchange,
they areSreally an accomplished fact. A win
dow pane is made of white paper, manufactured
| from cotton or linen, and modified by chemical
action. Afterward the paper is dipped in a
| preparation of camphor and alcohol which makes
it like parchment. From this point it can be
| nodded and cut into remarkably touch sheets
entirely transparent, and it can be dyed with
almost the whole of the aniline colors, the re-
suit being transparent sheet, showing far more
vivid hues than the best glass exhibits.-B0stOH
Budget.
| TYes, Augustus l love you. Now you
must go and see father. No, Dovie, not yet
that is father than want to go to at present.
w-In colds in the head bathe the neck and
shoulders in cold water and rub dry.